An Amtrak Turboliner crosses over at Lake in Milwaukee, WI with train #326 in November of 1976. Bob Bullermann photo from my collection.

WC 6553 brings a Milwaukee turn thru Grand Avenue on the Soo Line (ex-MILW) in December of 1994.

Are you lost? Companion photo to 645776. MILW caboose 99225 brings up the rear of a coal train thru Belton on the CNW south of Butler Yard in January of 1985. CNW's distinctive semaphore for westb... (more)

Are you lost? MILW 28 and 29 bring a coal train thru Belton on the CNW south of Butler Yard in January of 1985. The CNW line west to Waukesha diverges here.

Just before Amtrak and the end of passenger service on the CNW, F7 4072A brings a Chicago-Milwaukee train past the Milwaukee Solvay Coke plant in Milwaukee, WI in April of 1971. Bob Ferge photo fr... (more)

55 years ago on January 21st, at approximately 2:50 am, the last North Shore trains reached their destinations of Milwaukee and Chicago for the last time. This ended many years of interurban servi... (more)

71 years ago, in January of 1947, Milwaukee, WI had one of their biggest blizzards in history. 19" of snow fell with drifts 4 feet or more high. It shut the city down completely as people act... (more)

MILW 117C leads a quartet of F's up Lake Hill in Milwaukee, WI in March of 1973. Bob Ferge photo from my collection.

Amtrak 406 crests Lake Hill in Milwaukee, WI with a Chicago-Milwaukee (or the Prairie States ??) train in October of 1974. Bob Ferge photo from my collection.

I got the mileage! Soo Line 4225 idles outside the joint SOO/UP Menominee Belt yard office in July of 1999. This joint yard was originally a CNW/MILW operation when I got my first ride on a locomo... (more)

Merry Christmas! The 2017 CP Holiday Train arrives into Milwaukee.

A CNW GP30/GP35 combo leads a eastbound freight over the Watertown Plank Road bridge in Milwaukee, WI in March of 1979. Bob Ferge photo from my collection.

CNW's Milwaukee lakefront depot sits unused and ready to be torn down in this view from September of 1966. The destruction of this beautiful and historic building caused Milwaukee to rethink their... (more)

The last day..... Companion photo to 640628. CNW 5028A leads the Peninsula 400 out of CNW's Lakefront Depot on May 15th, 1966. CNW operations would move to the nearby Milwaukee Road depot the nex... (more)

The last day..... CNW 5028A leads what appears to be the Peninsula 400 out of CNW's Lakefront Depot on May 15th, 1966. CNW operations would move to the nearby Milwaukee Road depot the next day. It... (more)